Thursday night edition of the dunked on basketball podcasts. One of my absolute favorite guests. Of course Utah jazz play by play.

An answer on the radio also host of locked on jazz and the locked on NBA podcast where he has far better guests than I do.

David Locker. Are you doing all right now I either take that as a compliment or since I'm your guest you've just said that everyone of my guess is better than me.

Well you did have that carper on today right so that's it. I did and I have the and I have the coach as well so you know my guess sometimes I can't even call them by name which means you know who knows but no you know it's funny.

My lawyer is mine as soon as I said that realize that oh wait a minute like he's a guest on my show and now I'm imputing him.

I didn't mean to do that but I figured that nobody else would be as arcane as me to actually catch it but you did immediately so that's why we get along well this is also because so I always thought I was going to be a lawyer.

And then I was actually smart enough to not go to law school and just go straight into broadcasting you just went to law school have the hoi de toy de title are so impressive have a far better fallback plan than I do if something goes wrong but frankly had to go to law school and be a lawyer.

I mean I've like completely forgotten everything about just like the day to day of being a lawyer it's only been like a year and a half to I if I had to go back I it would be it would be a disaster how many happy lawyers do you know yeah it's a shame my mom is very happy.

She's been insurance lawyer in Chicago for over 40 years she really liked it she's part of the reason I went to law school I mean I was a happy lawyer I just like this better you know it wasn't I mean I think compared to most people but yeah they're definitely I think the biggest issue in the law is just.

Other lawyers are so annoying and miserable that you know whether the people you're working for you know there's a certain type of personality that leads you to make partner in a big law firm and then if you're an associate working for that type of personality you might be pretty miserable and then you know having to deal with opposing counsel all the time who just are incredibly

transigent a lot of the time could be pretty stressful for a lot of people to I think a law school so I don't know what that word meant that you there.

It means they never agree for any reason which hopefully would be the theme of this podcast for us to or maybe that'll be the the home and home on your podcast which you're.

You and I have had some significant disagreements over our times we've done these before.

No it's and I like it when instead of you just saying that's interesting which is what you usually do when you disagree you actually like fire back we encourage that here.

Alright I'm ready I'm revved up fire back when necessary well so where I wanted to start here is just some general NBA stuff you're a keen observer of the league you watch a ton of games you watch a ton of games live you're also have you're around the team more so I think you

both in terms of the game and in terms of just seeing how teams operate you have a unique perspective so I want to ask you just like what have you learned about basketball this year and about the NBA this year just in generally if you reach any conclusions about hey you know what like I just came to the

conclusion that this works or this doesn't work or hey this is something that I never realized was so important or so unimportant.

I think that so by being around the team every day I'm taking your question a little bit differently but I'd say the two things that I think I've learned most by being around a team every day that fights against kind of my analytical belief of loving to look at the NBA

analytically and that when I see things on Twitter from people I'm like gosh like that doesn't work that way is one that one no decision is 100% zero percent yeah

and I think we all act like when the coach makes it oh my gosh how could he possibly that well like it was probably 51 49 or 55 45 or 60 40 and then part two of that is that there are a lot of times in which because no the second thing is that no

decision is made in a capsule they're all made with a team dynamic involved or an 82 game schedule involved that there are times when it's absolutely appropriate to take the 40% choice on the 60 40.

Yeah and I think that not only that is there a 60 40 sometimes it's that even if you make the wrong decision the nature of the game is just that sometimes things are going to work out well right if you call it terrible play as a coach and your team ends up shooting a really bad

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